Cock Lane and Common-Sense

104

S. P. R., vi. 149.

105

Proc. S. P. R., viii. 133.

106

Proc. S. P. R., Nov., 1889, p. 269.

107

This is rather overstated; there were knocks, and raps, and footsteps (Proc. S. P. R., Nov., 1889, p. 310).

108

Proc. S. P. R., April, 1885, p. 144.

109

To be frank, in a haunted house the writer did once see an appearance, which was certainly either the ghost or one of the maids; ‘the Deil or else an outler quey,’ as Burns says.

110

London, 1881, pp. 184-185.

111

S. P. R., xv. 64.

112

Proceedings S. P. R., xvi. 332.

113

Sights and Shadows, p. 60.

114

British Chronicle, January 18, 1762.

115

Annual Register.

116

Praep. Evang., v. ix. 4.

117

Rudolfi Fuldensis, Annal., 858, in Pertz, i. 372. See Grimm’s Teutonic Mythology, Engl. transl., p. 514.

118

Pseudo-Clemens, Homil., ii. 32, 638. In Mr. Myers’s Classical Essays, p. 66.

119

Avignon, 1751.

120

Compare the case of John Beaumont, F.R.S., in his Treatise of Spirits (1705).

121

Proceedings S. P. R., viii. 151-189.

122

Mrs. Ricketts was a sister of Lord St. Vincent, who tried, in vain, to discover the cause of the disturbances. Scott says (Demonology and Witchcraft, p. 360): ‘Who has heard or seen an authentic account from Lord St. Vincent?’ There is a full account in the Journal of the S. P. R. It appeared much too late for Sir Walter Scott also complains of lack of details for the Wynyard story. They are now accessible. People were, in his time, afraid to make their experiences public.

123

The story is told by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, in his Introduction to Law’s Memorialls, p. xci. Sharpe cites no source of the tradition.

124

We are not discussing Dreams, which are many, but waking hallucinations, which are, relatively rare, and are remembered, unlike Dreams, whether they are coincidental or not.

125

Gurney, op. cit., p. 187.

126

The writer knows a case in which a gentleman, who had gone to bed about eleven p.m., in Scotland, was roused by hearing his own name loudly called. He searched his room in vain. His brother died suddenly, at the hour when he heard the voice, in Canada. But the difference of time proves that the voice was heard several hours before the death. Here, then, is a chance coincidence, which looked very like a case of Telepathy. Another will be found in Mr. Dale Owen’s Debatable Land, p. 364. A gentleman died ‘after breakfast’ in Rhenish Prussia, and appeared, before noon, in New York. Thus he appeared hours after he died.

127

Polack, New Zealand, i. 269.

128

Proceedings S. P. R., xv. 10.